Wish List
- artists' quality watercolour paints
- cinema season ticket
Books
Favourite Sites
- ravelry
An online knitting community, great for sharing enthusiasm for knitting and crochet, and a good source of patterns. - Knitting is fun!
I've just discovered this site with a great range of glorious yarns imported by Bev Beattie. - Jamieson and Smith yarns
Jamieson and Smith spin and dye wonderful woolen yarns in a range of very inspiring colours - Style guru
Style, fashion, design and brands from an anthropological perspective. Ted Polhemus is the author of Street Style. - Beautiful yarns
Julieta's yarns and the things she makes from them are truly stunning. Visit the website or pop along to Greenwich Market. - Wonderful painting holidays
artEscapes offers painting holidays in the UK and abroad with two lovely Scottish artists, Nicky de la Peña and Laura Magliveras. Destinations include Scotland, St Ives, Spain, Greece and Mexico. - Gooseflesh
A very serene site with some great creative crochet projects. - Earth Angels Bears, Dolls & Folk Art
I wish there was a shop like this in London... - Janet Bolton - Textile Pictures
A wonderful textile artist with a unique style and fabulous hair... - Made in Hastings
Glimpses into a unique art and craft shop on England's south coast.
One-Line Bio
Artist, Writer and Editor
Biography
Education:
Terrace Road Junior Mixed & Infants, Swansea
Blackheath High School for Girls, London
Croydon College of Art
Newcastle Polytechnic, Faculty of Fine Art
Ravensbourne College of Art & Design
The Slade School, University College London
University of Greenwich, London
I support myself and my three lovely children by working as a freelance editor; I also write books and magazine articles on subjects such as knitting, crochet, embroidery, collage, photography and painting.
We live in London, in a house with four bedrooms, a big, homely kitchen and a back yard just big enough for a table and four chairs.
In my handbag: sketch book, pencils, camera.
On my bedside table: books on the history of English, notebook and pen.
In my fridge: beer, olives, pancetta.
In my bathroom cabinet: pink and purple hair dye.
In my dreams: a house on the beach.
Interests
o brother where art thou, the pogues, michael, school of rock, chinatown, brokeback mountain, blues brothers, blue juice, la vie en rose. food: cooking and eating. heart-throbs: jack black, james purefoy, robbie coltrane music: kirsty mccoll, tenacious d. best of all: my children., favourite things: my children; picnics; the seaside; taking photos; painting; making sketchbooks; singing along to favourite songs; listening to radio 4. movies: moulin rouge, the commitments, i am sam
